Monday, September 21, 2009

Poetic Drives & Festive Spirit

It’s Eid today and you can feel it in the air.

We left at 7 am to go see Aroo near Pahalgam. All along the way you could smell incense, feel the bonhomie and see little kids getting ready for the morning prayer. I wish I had 5 pictures about it that will say a lot more than these few lines.

Aroo is wonderfully pretty. I got some great morning shots there. On the way back we met Shaukat a little child and his nomad family astride a bunch of horses moving down for the winter. I thought the kid looked just like me. All the way down from there to Gulmarg we went about waving to people on the road and exchanging silent Eid greetings. I happily also ran out of camera batteries and drove 3/4ths of the way home. As soon as Dad took the wheel I was off to a nap!

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